Let it rain
Oh! What’s that? Peaches looks startled as something looks like it’s hopping across the trail. I think: a toad! But when I look again, I see it’s a mole, stopping and starting as it wends its way over the dry,…
Surrounding space
Last weekend the lake was FULL : boats going back and forrh, people in kayaks and canoes and SUPs, swimmers enjoying late season lake water (still warm-ish). Labor Day Weekend.This weekend, clouds, thunder, rain. Quiet. Summer is ending. I knew…
end of August, Squam Lake 2025
What a great August here at Squam. Warm and sunny for days on end. Family and friends “lived” in the water, day in and day out. But now: Where did they all go? The cormorant, taking a moment to dry…
can you guess?
I’m dedicating this blog post to Artemis who is 5 years old. Maybe someday Mischa, now 4 months old, will appreciate it. Both young artists were visiting me from Toronto, so I thought I’d share some fun with them. And…
sad
Are you ever ready for someone close to you to… die? Even if you knew they were facing challenges. Even if you knew they were not as strong as you wanted them to be. All of that was true for…
spring is all about… art is all about…
Spring is all about what’s coming into form, right? All about becoming. And unfolding. AND… Art is all about… Yes. You start with looking? With colors? With an idea? Maybe this: You look again. “I wonder if I shift the…
Respite
I want to shower you with flowers! Not organized. Not with any sense of “they need effort”: Just pure love and thanks!: To all you you kind and caring souls who responded to my request for feedback!!! I honestly was…
why make art? it and behind it
Why? Don’t you love that question. Why make art? Why do love what you love to do? So if anyone asked me, why I make art. Or why any artist makes art… I’ll share with you part of my journey…
help me with this
I want to ask you what you think. I had posted an image of my art on canvas: girls learning outdoors, but I hadn’t actually put it on my online shop site. When people asked about it, I was encouraged…
intensity/calm (we hope)
I think it was when I first was introduced to astrology years and years and years ago that the concept of the time you were born – or that times at all – had a particular energy, and that this…